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Arctic research vessel Sikuliaq prepares for final trialshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3385282-arctic-vessel-sikuliaq-prepares-final-trials.html
SEWARD, Alaska (AP) — A floating Arctic laboratory four decades in the making has arrived at its home port and stands poised to begin unlocking mysteries of one of the wildest places on Earth.
The 261-foot Sikuliaq (see-KOO'-lee-ak) next month will leave Seward, sail around the Aleutian Islands and tuck into sea ice in the Bering Sea. The voyage will be t...Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:03:32 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3385282-arctic-vessel-sikuliaq-prepares-final-trials.html2015-02-27T19:03:32ZFeds spot third baby orca born recently to imperiled podshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3380350-feds-spot-third-baby-orca-born-to-imperiled-pods.html
SEATTLE (AP) — U.S. scientists following endangered killer whales from a research vessel have spotted a baby orca off the coast of Washington state, the third birth documented this winter but still leaving the population dangerously low.
The research crew observed the calf on Wednesday with other whales in the L-pod, one of three families of southern resi...Thu, 26 Feb 2015 20:49:38 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3380350-feds-spot-third-baby-orca-born-to-imperiled-pods.html2015-02-26T20:49:38ZStudy: World dumps 8.8 million tons of plastics into oceanshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3354288-study-world-dumps-88-tons-plastics-oceans.html
SAN JOSE, California (AP) — Each year about 8.8 million tons of plastic ends up in the world oceans, a quantity much higher than previous estimates, according to a new study that tracked marine debris from its source.
That's the equivalent of five grocery bags full of plastic debris dotting each foot of coastline around the world, said study lead author J...Thu, 12 Feb 2015 19:02:31 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3354288-study-world-dumps-88-tons-plastics-oceans.html2015-02-12T19:02:31ZResearchers help guard sunken tribe artifacts from turbineshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3348022-researchers-help-guard-sunken-tribe-artifacts-turbines.html
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — University of Rhode Island researchers are working with Native Americans to ensure that energy companies hoping to erect massive wind turbines off New England don't inadvertently disturb the tribes' ceremonial sites and burial grounds, now submerged under hundreds of feet of water.
Providence-based Deepwater Wind is planning what c...Mon, 09 Feb 2015 20:36:26 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3348022-researchers-help-guard-sunken-tribe-artifacts-turbines.html2015-02-09T20:36:26ZBrazil scientists fear golden mussel threat to Amazon Riverhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3340294-brazil-scientists-fear-golden-mussel-threat-to-amazon-river.html
RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The world's mightiest waterway, the Amazon River, is threatened by the most diminutive of foes — a tiny mussel invading from China.
Since hitching its way to South America in the early 1990s, the golden mussel has claimed new territory at alarming speeds, plowing through indigenous flora and fauna as it has spread to waters in five c...Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:14:18 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3340294-brazil-scientists-fear-golden-mussel-threat-to-amazon-river.html2015-02-05T14:14:18ZExam to study dead whale found at Seattle ferry terminalhttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3316172-exam-to-study-dead-whale-seattle-ferry-terminal.html
SEATTLE (AP) — A 32-foot gray whale that turned up dead under the Washington state ferry terminal in downtown Seattle has been moved so biologists can figure out why it died.
The whale was towed from the dock to a nearby location Thursday afternoon, said Broch Bender, a spokeswoman for the Washington State Ferries. The plan is to move it to another secure...Fri, 23 Jan 2015 00:13:27 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3316172-exam-to-study-dead-whale-seattle-ferry-terminal.html2015-01-23T00:13:27ZMagnificent blue glow of Hong Kong seas also disturbinghttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3316362-magnificent-blue-glow-hong-kong-seas-disturbing.html
Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say.
The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom created by something called Noctiluca scintillans, nicknamed Sea Sparkle. It looks like algae and can act like algae. But it's not quite. It is a single-cell...Thu, 22 Jan 2015 21:53:11 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3316362-magnificent-blue-glow-hong-kong-seas-disturbing.html2015-01-22T21:53:11ZStudy: Sea level rise accelerating more than once thoughthttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3302606-study-sea-level-rise-accelerating-than-thought.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — The world's oceans are now rising far faster than they did in the past, a new study says.
The study found that for much of the 20th century — until about 1990 — sea level was about 30 percent less than earlier research had figured. But that's not good news, scientists say, because about 25 years ago the seas started rising faster and the...Wed, 14 Jan 2015 18:22:37 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3302606-study-sea-level-rise-accelerating-than-thought.html2015-01-14T18:22:37ZScientists: Weather plays big role in Lake Erie 'dead zones'http://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3290328-scientists-weather-plays-big-role-lake-erie-dead-zones.html
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — Reducing phosphorus levels in Lake Erie is a worthy goal but not necessarily a cure-all for one of the lake's biggest environmental hazards: "dead zones" with oxygen levels so low that fish can't survive, scientists said Tuesday.
Researchers with the Carnegie Institution for Science said Erie's biggest dead zone on record forme...Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:44:47 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3290328-scientists-weather-plays-big-role-lake-erie-dead-zones.html2015-01-06T21:44:47ZNewborn killer whale a good sign for imperiled podhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3283402-newborn-killer-whale-good-sign-imperiled-pod.html
SEATTLE (AP) — A newborn orca in the endangered pod that frequents Puget Sound is an encouraging sign following the death earlier this month of a pregnant killer whale from the same group.
"That was a pretty hard hit," Howard Garrett of the Whidbey Island-based Orca Network said Wednesday. "It's good to see a positive sign." The baby orca was discovered T...Thu, 01 Jan 2015 00:15:18 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3283402-newborn-killer-whale-good-sign-imperiled-pod.html2015-01-01T00:15:18ZRuling opens door for cruise malpractice lawsuitshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3274034-ruling-opens-door-cruise-malpractice-lawsuits.html
MIAMI (AP) — Pasquale Vaglio, a retired New York City policeman and Korean War veteran, was on the cruise of a lifetime with 18 family members in the summer of 2011 aboard Royal Caribbean's "Explorer of the Seas." Then, the accident happened.
Vaglio, 82, fell and hit his head shortly after disembarking for a sightseeing trip in Bermuda. He was immediately...Tue, 23 Dec 2014 22:32:18 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3274034-ruling-opens-door-cruise-malpractice-lawsuits.html2014-12-23T22:32:18ZRising anger as Nicaragua canal to break groundhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3271326-rising-anger-nicaragua-canal-to-break-ground.html
RIO GRANDE, Nicaragua (AP) — As a conscripted soldier during the Contra War of the 1980s, Esteban Ruiz used to flee from battles because he didn't want to have to kill anyone. But now, as the 47-year-old farmer prepares to fight for his land, Ruiz insists, "I'm not going to run."
Ruiz's property on the banks of Nicaragua's Rio Grande sits in the path of a...Sun, 21 Dec 2014 14:32:15 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3271326-rising-anger-nicaragua-canal-to-break-ground.html2014-12-21T14:32:15ZStudy: 270,000 tons of plastic floating in oceanshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3254154-study-270000-tons-plastic-floating-oceans.html
HONOLULU (AP) — A new study estimates nearly 270,000 tons of plastic is floating in the world's oceans. That's enough to fill more than 38,500 garbage trucks.
The plastic is broken up into more than 5 trillion pieces, said the study published Wednesday in the scientific journal PLOS ONE. The paper is the latest in a nascent field where scientists are tryi...Thu, 11 Dec 2014 03:02:51 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3254154-study-270000-tons-plastic-floating-oceans.html2014-12-11T03:02:51ZAfter 1.3M miles, end of an era for research shiphttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3242830-13m-miles-era-ship.html
WOODS HOLE, Mass. (AP) — A ship that sailed more than 1.3 million miles in the name of science is back at port for the last time.
The research vessel Knorr is being decommissioned after more than 40 years as the workhorse of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution research fleet. It docked for good Wednesday to fireworks and a cannon salute.
...Thu, 04 Dec 2014 21:44:03 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3242830-13m-miles-era-ship.html2014-12-04T21:44:03ZSurrogate sushi: Japan biotech for bluefin tunahttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3218426-surrogate-sushi-japan-biotech-bluefin-tuna.html
TATEYAMA, Japan (AP) — Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro Yamazaki, who is known in this seaside community as "Young Mr. Fish," is working to ensure the species survives.
Yamazaki is fine-tuning a technology to use mackerel surrogates to spawn the bluefin, a process he ...Thu, 20 Nov 2014 07:07:06 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3218426-surrogate-sushi-japan-biotech-bluefin-tuna.html2014-11-20T07:07:06ZJapan cuts whaling target in bid to resume hunthttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3214624-japan-cuts-whaling-target-bid-to-resume-hunt.html
TOKYO (AP) — Japan has slashed its whale catch target in the Antarctic by two-thirds in a bid to resume its annual whale hunt, which an international court ruled must stop.
The revised program submitted Tuesday to the International Whaling Commission says Japan seeks to catch 333 minke whales each year between 2015 and 2027, down from an earlier target of...Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:58:00 GMThttp://www.mail.com/business/economy/3214624-japan-cuts-whaling-target-bid-to-resume-hunt.html2014-11-18T13:58:00ZStudy finds virus likely cause of sea star wastinghttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3213718-study-finds-virus-sea-star-wasting.html
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Scientists have isolated a virus they are pretty sure is causing the mysterious disease that has killed millions of sea stars on the Pacific Coast from Southern California to Alaska by causing them to lose their limbs and eventually disintegrate into slime and piles of tiny bones.
A study published Monday in the journal Proceeding...Tue, 18 Nov 2014 00:15:07 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/health/3213718-study-finds-virus-sea-star-wasting.html2014-11-18T00:15:07ZDeath by dirty water: Storm runoff a risk for fishhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3212474-death-dirty-water-storm-runoff-risk-fish.html
POULSBO, Wash. (AP) — Just hours into the experiment, the prognosis was grim for salmon that had been submerged in rain runoff collected from one of Seattle's busiest highways. One by one, the fish were removed from a tank filled with coffee-colored water and inspected: They were rigid. Their typically red gills were gray.
"He's way dead," David Baldwin, ...Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:50:32 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3212474-death-dirty-water-storm-runoff-risk-fish.html2014-11-17T13:50:32ZStudy: Global warming worsening watery dead zoneshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3201052-study-global-warming-worsening-watery-dead-zones.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is likely playing a bigger role than previously thought in dead zones in oceans, lakes and rivers around the world and it's only going to get worse, according to a new study.
Dead zones occur when fertilizer runoff clogs waterways with nutrients, such as nitrogen and phosphorous. That leads to an explosion of microbes that...Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:58:49 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3201052-study-global-warming-worsening-watery-dead-zones.html2014-11-10T16:58:49ZScientists find new coral species off Californiahttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3194074-scientists-find-coral-species-california.html
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Scientists have discovered a new species of deep-sea coral in underwater canyons off the Northern California coast, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Wednesday.
A NOAA research team using small submersibles found the coral in September near national marine sanctuaries off the coast of Sonoma County, the age...Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:24:58 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3194074-scientists-find-coral-species-california.html2014-11-06T02:24:58ZStudy: Mislabeled shrimp at restaurants, grocershttp://www.mail.com/news/politics/3182392-study-mislabeled-shrimp-restaurants-grocers.html
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ever thought that big, pink Gulf coast shrimp you ordered at the restaurant or bought from the store didn't taste juicy or salty enough?
Maybe it wasn't from the Gulf. From New York to New Orleans to Oregon, consumers are being misled about the shrimp they're buying, according to a survey by the advocacy group Oceana. Cheap, imported fa...Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:37:04 GMThttp://www.mail.com/news/politics/3182392-study-mislabeled-shrimp-restaurants-grocers.html2014-10-30T18:37:04ZBP spill left big oily 'bathtub ring' on seafloorhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3176972-bp-spill-left-big-oily-bathtub-ring-seafloor.html
WASHINGTON (AP) — The BP oil spill left an oily "bathub ring" on the sea floor that's about the size of Rhode Island, new research shows.
The study by David Valentine, the chief scientist on the federal damage assessment research ships, estimates that about 10 million gallons of oil coagulated on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico around the damaged Deepwate...Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:03:51 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3176972-bp-spill-left-big-oily-bathtub-ring-seafloor.html2014-10-27T20:03:51ZNewborn Puget Sound killer whale presumed deadhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3165104-newborn-puget-sound-killer-whale-presumed-dead.html
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — A killer whale born to much hope in early September apparently died while its pod was in the open ocean off Washington or British Columbia, the Center for Whale Research said.
The baby was the first known calf born since 2012 to a population of endangered orcas that frequent Puget Sound in Washington state. It has not been seen...Tue, 21 Oct 2014 16:38:51 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3165104-newborn-puget-sound-killer-whale-presumed-dead.html2014-10-21T16:38:51ZBiologists identify pot gardens as salmon threathttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3125950-biologists-identify-pot-gardens-salmon-threat.html
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) — Water use and other actions by the marijuana industry in the Emerald Triangle of Northern California and Southern Oregon are threatening salmon already in danger of extinction, federal biologists said Tuesday.
Concerns about the impact of pot farming were raised by the NOAA Fisheries Service in its final recovery plan for coho sal...Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:20:12 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3125950-biologists-identify-pot-gardens-salmon-threat.html2014-09-30T19:20:12ZRed tide off northwest Florida could hit economyhttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3101612-red-tide-northwest-florida-hit-economy.html
CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — It's like Florida's version of The Blob. Slow moving glops of toxic algae in the northeast Gulf of Mexico are killing sea turtles, sharks and fish, and threatening the waters and beaches that fuel the region's economy.
Known as "red tide," this particular strain called Karenia brevis is present nearly every year off Florida, but la...Wed, 17 Sep 2014 15:02:23 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3101612-red-tide-northwest-florida-hit-economy.html2014-09-17T15:02:23ZJapan's whale hunt under scrutiny at IWC meetinghttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3098128-japans-whale-hunt-under-scrutiny-iwc-meeting.html
PORTOROZ, Slovenia (AP) — Japan's intention to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic — despite a ruling by the top U.N. court — topped the agenda as an international whaling conference opened Monday in Slovenia's Adriatic Sea resort of Portoroz.
Whaling for research purposes is exempt from the 1986 international ban on commercial whaling and Japan says it w...Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:08:57 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3098128-japans-whale-hunt-under-scrutiny-iwc-meeting.html2014-09-15T15:08:57ZHunt for scientific treasure in Hemingway journalshttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3085924-hunt-scientific-treasure-hemingway-journals.html
COJIMAR, Cuba (AP) — Ernest Hemingway's love of the sea and eye for detail have scientists hoping that a visit to Cuba by the author's grandsons will open access to his fishing logs, which may be a treasure trove of information about the state of deep-water species before they were diminished by overfishing.
Patrick and John Hemingway launched a five-day ...Mon, 08 Sep 2014 21:59:34 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3085924-hunt-scientific-treasure-hemingway-journals.html2014-09-08T21:59:34ZStudy: California blue whales recover from whalinghttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3082972-study-california-blue-whales-recover-whaling.html
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A new analysis suggests there are as many blue whales living off the coast of California as there were before humans started hunting them to near extinction 110 years ago.
The Los Angeles Times reports (http://lat.ms/1lOfXru) there are about 2,200 blue whales swimming on the eastern side of the Pacific Ocean, from Mexico up into Alaska....Sun, 07 Sep 2014 02:10:51 GMThttp://www.mail.com/scitech/news/3082972-study-california-blue-whales-recover-whaling.html2014-09-07T02:10:51Z